Saturday, July 7, 2012

Resident Evil 5: outrage over Koran lying on the floor.(EN).By Tobias Ritter.[GoogleTranslate]The zombie action game Resident Evil 5 has at one point in the game world seems to be a copy of the Koran, the holy book of Islam, lost onto the ground.Or so suggests a currently circulating in Santander on various social networking channels screenshot that Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield, the two protagonists of the game, before lying on the floor of the issue also shows God's revelation of the Qur'an mentioned to the Prophet Muhammad.What now for many more may not cause as a shrug, currently set to panic, some Muslims outraged about this disgraceful treatment they consider their Holy Scriptures - and partly to a rather extreme way.Insults were directed to the responsible developer of the variety 'bastards' and 'dog' and these are the harmless variety. Some will even demand that one should bring the makers of Resident Evil 5 kindly to justice. Others call for the death penalty openly.The scale of the riots surrounding the Mohammed cartoons the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten will accept the outrage while not well, an unpleasant aftertaste brings the whole discussion in the way the supposed other side several times with the Koran and Islam insults over the strands suggests, however, still with them. It is not yet even proved that the screenshot is authentic at all.Hmmm......Read the full story here.

The 'Monsanto Rider': Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity from Federal Law?(AN).While many Americans were firing up barbecues and breaking out the sparklers to celebrate Independence Day, biotech industry executives were more likely chilling champagne to celebrate another kind of independence: immunity from federal law.

A so-called “Monsanto rider,” quietly slipped into the multi-billion dollar FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill, would require – not just allow, but require - the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a temporary permit for the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop, even if a federal court has ordered the planting be halted until an Environmental Impact Statement is completed. All the farmer or the biotech producer has to do is ask, and the questionable crops could be released into the environment where they could potentially contaminate conventional or organic crops and, ultimately, the nation’s food supply.

Unless the Senate or a citizen’s army of farmers and consumers can stop them, the House of Representatives is likely to ram this dangerous rider through any day now.

In a statement issued last month, the Center For Food Safety had this to say about the biotech industry’s latest attempt to circumvent legal and regulatory safeguards.

The Monsanto Rider is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers. Judicial review is an essential element of U.S. law, providing a critical and impartial check on government decisions that may negatively impact human health, the environment or livelihoods. Maintaining the clear-cut boundary of a Constitutionally-guaranteed separation of powers is essential to our government. This provision will blur that line.
· Judicial review is a gateway, not a roadblock. Congress should be fully supportive of our nation’s independent judiciary. The ability of courts to review, evaluate and judge an issue that impacts public and environmental health is a strength, not a weakness, of our system. The loss of this fundamental safeguard could leave public health, the environment and livelihoods at risk.Read the full story here.

Two Russian nuclear-capable 'Bear' bombers intercepted near West Coast in second U.S. air defense zone intrusion in two weeks.(FB).By Bill Gertz.Two Russian strategic nuclear bombers entered the U.S. air defense zone near the Pacific coast on Wednesday and were met by U.S. interceptor jets, defense officials told the Free Beacon.
It was the second time Moscow dispatched nuclear-capable bombers into the 200-mile zone surrounding U.S. territory in the past two weeks.
An earlier intrusion by two Tu-95 Bear H bombers took place near Alaska as part of arctic war games that a Russian military spokesman said included simulated attacks on “enemy” air defenses and strategic facilities.
A defense official said the Pacific coast intrusion came close to the U.S. coast but did not enter the 12-mile area that the U.S. military considers sovereign airspace.
The bomber flights near the Pacific and earlier flights near Alaska appear to be signs Moscow is practicing the targeting of its long-range air-launched cruise missiles on two strategic missile defense sites, one at Fort Greely, Alaska and a second site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
In May, Russian Gen. Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the Russian General Staff, said during a Moscow conference that because missile defense systems are destabilizing, “A decision on pre-emptive use of the attack weapons available will be made when the situation worsens.” The comments highlighted Russian opposition to planned deployments of U.S. missile defense interceptors and sensors in Europe.
The U.S. defense official called the latest Bear H incident near the U.S. West Coast “Putin’s Fourth of July Bear greeting to Obama.”
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former Alaska commander for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said the latest Bear H intrusion appears to be Russian military testing.
“It’s becoming very obvious that Putin is testing Obama and his national security team,” McInerney told the Free Beacon. “These long-range aviation excursions are duplicating exercises I experienced during the height of the Cold War when I command the Alaska NORAD region.The Alaska bomber flights coincided with a summit between Obama and Putin in Mexico June 18.
According to U.S. officials, some 30 bombers and support aircraft took part in the war games, including the Bear Hs and Tu-160 Blackjack bombers.
Russian Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Vladimir Deryabin, told reporters in Moscow last month that the arctic strategic war games “practice destruction of enemy air defenses and strategic facilities.”Hmmmm............"ИЗМЕНЕНИЕ" a.k.a. CHANGE!Read the full story here.

OPEC President Iran Consulting with Members on Holding Emergency Meeting.(Fars).Iran's Governor at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Mohammad Ali Khatibi announced that OPEC president Iran is in talks with other member states to hold an emergency meeting following the recent slide in oil prices.
"Following the falling world oil prices, OPEC presidency is consulting with the member countries to hold the emergency meeting as soon as possible," Khatibi told FNA on Saturday.
He noted that a number of members are eager to hold an emergency meeting due to the decline in oil prices, and said, "To hold an emergency meeting, all members should be present and the meeting will be held once all members agree with it."
Khatibi reiterated that consultations still continue with the oil ministers of the member states on this topic.
Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi had said earlier this week that many OPEC members have voiced their agreement with Iran's call for holding an emergency meeting.
"Fortunately OPEC members, like Algeria, agree with holding this extraordinary meeting," Qassemi told FNA on Tuesday, and added that Algeria has even offered to host the meeting.
He reminded the decreasing oil prices in the last few days, and said although the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has not yet sent a reply to Tehran's request, "it seems that OPEC agrees with holding this extraordinary meeting, given the current conditions of oil price".
Qassemi called on the members of the oil cartel on Sunday to convene in an emergency meeting, warning that the current market value of oil has gone "illogical".
"In 161st OPEC meeting it was agreed that fall of oil prices below $100 per barrel would mean prices have violated the critical line, so we have demanded OPEC secretary general...to make preparations for holding an emergency meeting," Qassemi told the oil ministry's website at the time.
Referring to overproduction by some OPEC members and rising inventories in oil consuming countries, the minister told Shana that "if OPEC members don't observe the agreed production ceiling, the oil market will experience disorder".
"All members have agreed to respect the organization's production ceiling in a bid to keep the market balanced," he reminded.
Qassemi went on to say that prior to the recent OPEC meeting, the cartel's total output had hit approximately 33 million barrels per day which was agreed to scale back to 30 million barrels per day with reasonable prices.
"Following the recent OPEC meeting, the supply conditions have improved to some extent,"(Lower production due to Summer hours working in SaudiArabia) Qassemi said, and expressed the hope that members would comply with their commitments.
On falling oil prices in recent days, Qassemi said at this time of year falling oil prices originates from seasonal reasons and falling demand but it is expected to go up in winter provided that the level of oil production is reasonable.Hmmm.....Get ready for higher Gas prices.Read the full story here.

Iranian Analyst "Iran Oil Ban Fatal Blow to EU economy".(Fars).The US-led EU oil sanctions against Iran strike a fatal blow to Europe, a senior analyst said, adding that Washington is sacrificing its European allies for the sake of its own foreign policy.Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, a Public Diplomacy Scholar, independent researcher and blogger with a focus on US foreign policy and the role of lobby groups, believes that the US-driven pressures and sanctions on Iran will have dire repercussions for the green continent, specially if Iran reciprocates the European move and blocks the Strait of Hormuz to tankers carrying crude to the EU.
"Although American-led Western allies are flexing their muscles by sending battle ships to the Persian Gulf, Washington's own war game exercise, The Millennium Challenge 2002 with a price tag of $250 million, underscored America's inability to defeat Iran. Oblivious to the lesson of its own making, by sending more warships to the Persian Gulf, the United States is inching towards a full scale conflict. The inherent danger from the naval buildup is that unlike the Cuban Missile Crisis, the forces in the Persian Gulf are not confined to two leaders who would be able to communicate to stop a run-away situation. Nor would the consequences of such a potential conflict be limited to the region," Sepahpour-Ulrich said in an article in Global Research.
"Given that 17 million barrels of oil a day, or 35% of the world's seaborne oil exports go through the Strait of Hormuz, incidents in the Strait would be fatal for the world economy. While only 1.1 millions barrels per day goes to the United States, a significant amount of this oil is destined for Europe. Surely, one must ask why the United States demands that its "European allies" act contrary to their own national interest, pay a higher price for oil by boycotting Iranian oil and running the risk of Iran blocking the passage of other oil-tankers destined for them?
"Again, history has the straight answer. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the United States and not the oil-producing countries has used oil as a weapon. Some examples include the pressure the United States put on Britain in the 1920s to share its oil concessions in the Middle East with US companies. Post World War II, the United States violated the terms of the 1928 Red Line Agreement freezing the British and the French out of the Agreement," she added.
"In 1956, the United States made it clear to Britain and France that no oil would be sent to Western Europe unless the two aforementioned countries agreed to a rapid withdrawal from Egypt. The US was not opposed to the overthrow of Nasser, but as Eisenhower said: "Had they done it quickly, we would have accepted it"3.
"Demonstrably, although Europe is a major trade partner of the United States, the US does not concern itself with Europe's well being when it comes to executing its foreign policy. This should come as no surprise, especially since the United States sacrifices its own national interest to promote the Israeli agenda and that of the military industrial complex. But this does not explain why Europe would shoot itself in the foot at a time when its economical woes have passed the crisis point."
"It is possible that the leaders of Western European countries are beholden to special interest groups - the pro-Israel lobbies, as the United States is, or they believe Iran will not call their bluff by ratifying the bill passed by Majlis and their oil will be delivered unhindered; perhaps both. Either way, they are committing financial suicide and their demise may well come before Iran's resolve is shaken," she concluded.Hmmmm.......Sadly he is right the European Economy will receive the heaviest blows by high oil prices.Read the full story here.

Campaigner-In-Chief Uses First-Person Pronoun “I” And “Me” 117 Times In A Single 25 min Speech.(CNSNews).Speaking in Sandusky, Ohio on July 5, President Barack Obama used the first-person pronouns “I” and “me” a combined 117 times in a speech that lasted about 25 minutes and 32 seconds.
Obama used “I” 98 times and “me” 19 times, according to a transcript of the speech posted by the White House. A videotape of the speech posted on YouTube shows that Obama spoke for about 25-and-a-half minutes.During this speech, Obama used “I” or “me” approximately once every 13.09 seconds.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney also frequently used the first-person pronoun in his most recent speech that has been posted in its entiretyon C-SPAN. Speaking in Salem, Va., on Jun 26, Romney used the first-person pronouns “I” and “me” a combined 55 times in a speech that lasted about 18 minutes and 13 seconds.Near the end of his talk in Sandusky, Ohio, Obama told his audience he had made a commitment to think about them every morning when he arises.Hmmmm.........Herr Doctor Freud would have written several books on him .Read the full story here.

Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders brings his crusade against Islam to Colorado conservative confab.(TCS).By Ernest Luning.
Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders brought his crusade against the Islamic religion to Denver last weekend, warning an audience at the Western Conservative Summit that Europe and the United States are vulnerable to an insidious takeover by what he termed a “dangerous, totalitarian ideology” masquerading as a religion.
“If we do not stop the Islamization, we will lose everything: our identity, our culture, our democratic constitutional state, our freedom, and our civilization,” Wilders told an audience of roughly 1,000 gathered in the main ballroom at the downtown Hyatt Regency Denver on Saturday. The annual summit, in its third year, is sponsored by the Lakewood-based Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute and had an estimated 1,300 attendees over three days.
While the reaction to Wilders was mixed — he received repeated standing ovations during his 45-minute talk, but perhaps a third of the audience members remained planted in their seats throughout — one Colorado lawmaker said Americans should take the Islamic threat seriously and consider prohibiting the construction of mosques in the state.
Wilders, the founder and head of the far-right Party for Freedom, now the third-largest political party in the Netherlands, has lived under constant guard since 2004 and is the author of the recently published “Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me.”
He has been targeted “for criticizing Islam,” he told the avid crowd after describing some of the security measures required to protect him and his wife.
“My view, in a nutshell, is that Islam, rather than a religion, is predominantly a totalitarian ideology striving for world dominance,” he said. “I believe that Islam and freedom are incompatible.”
CCU president and former U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong launched the summit on Friday by proclaiming it open to members of all faiths.
“Of course, those of us at CCU are followers of Jesus, but in the room tonight are men and women of not only the New Testament but the Old Testament, and of other religious and philosophical traditions as well. You’re all welcome, we’re delighted you’re here,” Armstrong said.Former radio talk-show host and Denver attorney Craig Silverman introduced Wilders, but first told the crowd that he stood before them “in all humility to you conservatives for confession and forgiveness,” and admitted that he voted for Obama in 2008. Silverman said he has since seen the error of his ways.
“I thought Barack Hussein Obama was ideally situated to speak simple truths to the Islamic world,” Silverman said, adding that instead, the president “wouldn’t do it, he did not do it, and he will not do it.”
Saying he feared for America’s safety and for the very survival of Israel, Silverman declared that he has read few books in recent years that affected him as profoundly as Wilders’ memoir.
“Geert Wilders is a great man,” Silverman said. “He refuses to be intimidated. He is a profile in courage.” Hmmmm.......Wilders “I believe that Islam and freedom are incompatible.” he might be right when it comes to 'Democracy and Islam' - Fatwa issued February 28, 2010 by Sheikh Nasser Al-Din Al-Baghdadi, a member of the shari'a committee: "The elections are based on the system of democracy, and democracy is a religion that is not the religion of Allah... [Participating in them] is blatant heresy... It is [our] duty to eliminate [the system of] democracy, which contravenes our religion, and cleave to the real and pure monotheistic faith."Makes you wonder why they vote?Read the full story here.

"No Child Left Behind Obama Style" - Michigan test scores reveal a country in steep decline.(TT).Racial gaps in Michigan exam results a concern.Michigan educators have spent years trying to
address the persistent gap in achievement between white and minority students,
but Michigan Merit Exam results released Thursday provided troubling news: The
gap keeps widening.“Results in Detroit Public Schools were grimmer.
Just 205 students — or 6% of the 3,418 who took the math exam —
passed. In science, 104 students — or 3% of the 3,477 students
who took the exam, passed. Only 1.8% DPS students were deemed
college ready. “

The State Board of Education and the Michigan
Department of Education recently set closing the achievement gap — the
difference in percentage of students passing the exam — as a key goal for the
2012-13 school year.

The gaps, State Superintendent Mike Flanagan said
in a statement, are “shameful.”

“We need to end this disparity in education, and
we need to do this together as a state,” Flanagan said.

Overall, Thursday’s release of MME results was
mixed. Average ACT scores are up. So is the percentage of students considered
college-ready. But students struggled against a higher standard for passing the
exams, with only about a quarter of them passing in math and science.

The achievement gap between white and black
students widened in reading, math, science and writing on the MME, and narrowed
in only social studies. The gap between white and Hispanic students widened in
math and science, but narrowed in other subjects.

The gap also widened for both groups in the
percentage of students considered college-ready.

Plymouth-Canton Community Schools leaders have
worked for several years to address the achievement gap.

“We are very concerned about (the gaps),” said
Jeanne Farina, assistant superintendent for instructional services. District and
building equity teams are looking at the gaps, she said, “and digging deep into
the data to find out where did they start to fail and what we can do about
it.”More Details: EXAM HIGHLIGHTS
• At nearly 80 schools statewide, none of the students was considered college-ready. That includes 11 charter schools, 31 alternative schools and 36 traditional, comprehensive high schools. Sixteen Detroit Public Schools had no college-ready students.
• Only six schools in the state had more than half their students considered college-ready.
If America doesn’t turn around (like repeal healthcare, shun statist socialism
and get back to liberty, freedom and business) it’s future
is here.Hmmmm......Now if he follows the 'example of his BFF Erdogan he could start 'Religious Imam Hatip schools' the level is 'easier'.In Turkey, only 27 percent of the adult population has a complete secondary school education, compared with 65 percent in the EU, 74 percent in Korea, 82 percent in Poland, and 87 percent in the US.Read the full story here.

Yasir Arafat Is Still Dead and We Know Who Really Did Him In.(RR).By Barry Rubin.Yasir Arafat is still dead. True, he was once alive. I sat across from him in his Gaza office, for example. And he even had a copy of my history of the PLO on his bookshelf so he must have been of sound mind at the time. It’s not my fault. I told him to start jogging and cut down on sweets. But he didn’t listen. On November 4, 2004, he died, a fate he previously delivered to thousands of far more innocent people.The effort now by various Palestinian factions to imply Israel killed him is the funniest thing in the Middle East since the U.S. director of national intelligence’s congressional briefing when he said the Muslim Brotherhood was a secular democratic organization. What’s dismaying is how much play Western media are giving this charge as if it should be taken seriously. When the West behaves in this way it signals at the least a dangerously naive credulousness and at worst a profound anti-Jewish and anti-Israel complex. The New York Times and Washington Post take this nonsense seriously.
But there’s something else in this story, something very chilling indeed. Revolutionary Islamists especially, but many Muslims otherwise, believe that Jews tried to murder Muhammad, the founder of Islam, and even if they failed that the poison shortened his life. The accusation that Jews are the murderer of prophets — with Muslims throwing in the founder of Christianity also — is a phrase that derives from this story. It is frequently heard from Hamas and others.This is a blood libel, an alleged crime that then leads to the view that Jews are absolutely evil and should be wiped out. In short, it is a rationale for genocide.When Iran, Hamas, Hizballah, and the Muslim Brotherhood say that Israel should be wiped off the map and Jews generally should be murdered, that incitement is the inevitable consequence of this line of thinking.That Western observers are unaware of all of this history — repeated daily in inciteful sermons found in Middle East mosques — is quite evident.Such a lack of knowledge leads them to believe that the conflicts they say are easily resolvable, quickly settled by more Israeli concessions or still continuing because of Israeli actions when the causes are much deeper and the solutions far more remote. Western societies today are obsessed with searching everywhere for racism and hate speech. Well, the idea that the Jews murdered Arafat (rather than that Arafat spent most of his career murdering Jews) falls into that category.
As for the specific claims in the Arafat case, they are easily disposed of:First of all, anyone who saw Arafat during the last year of his life knew he was seriously ill and steadily worsening. His lips trembled, he looked disoriented, and he wasn’t as articulate as usual. Even on television you couldn’t possibly miss his distress. Parkinson’s disease was a likely diagnosis though Crohn’s disease was said to be another probable medical problem for the dictator.
His doctors obviously knew that he was in bad shape. But, and this is what’s most important, they didn’t do anything about it. The prospect of Arafat’s death was so traumatic for the movement — which had known no other leader during 43 years for Fatah, 36 years for the PLO, and its entire ten year life for the Palestinian Authority. By not taking serious action and giving him better treatment, the key to the mystery is this: His own doctors and movement killed Arafat. So if Israel killed Arafat, then his own doctors and the entire PLO, Fatah, and PA leadership were in on the conspiracy. Indeed, Arafat himself, by not more actively seeking medical help or speaking about his problems, was also in on the conspiracy. This is unlikely.Of course, Arafat was a weird person and in our biography, Arafat: A Political Biography, Judith Colp Rubin and I explain his psychology and personality. One of my favorite Palestinian jokes about Arafat recounts that he is patting the head of a little girl and asks her, “Whose daughter are you?”She answers, “Yours.” Arafat was considered by his countrymen to be so cold that he didn’t recognize his own begotten daughter. The story is almost plausible.But I repeat: there is no reason to think Arafat was a homosexual or died of AIDS or poisoning. He was overweight, ate an unhealthy diet, worked long hours, didn’t take care of himself (he believed eating honey would keep him healthy), and had very bad doctors despite their local reputations.
So we know who killed Arafat: his doctors, entourage, movement, and of course his own body. Yet when I go to Yahoo, what do I see but Arafat’s “mysterious” death as the lead story in the entire world, as if any accusation made against Israel must be true.
Note: Here’s a history of the Israel-killed-Arafat tale in Palestinian Media Watch. For more analysis of why the claims are absurd see here and here. Note: Here’s a history of the Israel-killed-Arafat tale in Palestinian Media Watch. For more analysis of why the claims are absurd see here and here. Here’s some more information about the Israeli decision to let Arafat go to Paris. One interesting point is that it implies the French doctors took some action which might have been correct but could also imply that they are at fault for Arafat’s turn for the worse, giving them a motive for not revealing details of his treatment.Hmmmm......The main question is WHY NOW?What are they planning in the very near future, lets say after the reelection of Obama?Read the full story here.

Iran TV halts 2 polls on nuke activities, Hormuz closure after voting opposed this path.(AA).Iran’s state-run TV was forced to cancel two polls after the majority of voting came against the policy of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The first poll, launched by Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB, was about how the Iranians regarded a possible halt in the uranium enrichment operations, which would accordingly halt the whole nuclear project in the country, in return for stopping the international economic sanctions imposed against Tehran.
But the gambit turned into a spectacular own goal after two days of voting when IRIB’s news channel screened results showing 63% of respondents in favor of suspending uranium enrichment in exchange for the gradual easing of sanctions.
The TV quickly stopped the poll and replaced it with one seeking viewers’ opinions on an Iranian parliament proposal to close the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically vital waterway in the Arabian Gulf that is the passageway for about one-fifth of the world’s oil supplies.
But that too appeared to backfire when 89% of respondents opposed closing the strait. It was subsequently replaced by another survey about the popular Iranian football club, Persepolis.Hmmmm......Must be a 'Zionist plot'?LOL.Read the full story here.More here.

Iran Inaugurates Production Line of New domestic made Anti-Armor Missile System.(Fars).Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi on Saturday inaugurated the production line of a new home-made anti-armor missile system named 'Dehlaviyeh'."The Dehlaviyeh missile is one of the most hi-tech anti-armor missiles designed for destroying different advanced tanks which are equipped with reactive armor," Vahidi said at the inauguration ceremony of the missile system.He also reiterated that the missile has been equipped with a special guiding system (which is resistant to different types of enemy's electronic warfare), a warhead and a missile-launcher and a portable engine-propeller.
"The missile system has been designed in a way that it can hit both fix ground targets and mobile armored targets," Vahidi said.
Last August, the Iranian Defense Ministry started mass-production of 73-mm anti-armor rockets capable of piercing and destroying armored vehicles from a 1,300-meter distance.
"The weapon is mobile and due to its low weight, it can be carried by an individual trooper," Vahidi told reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony held to launch the production line of the rocket at the time.
Tehran launched an arms development program during the 1980-88 Iraqi imposed war on Iran to compensate for a US weapons embargo. Since 1992, Iran has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles and fighter planes.
Yet, Iranian officials have always stressed that the country's military and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country.
Defense analysts and military observers say that Iran's wargames and its advancements in weapons production have proved as a deterrent factor, specially at a time of heightened threats by the US.Read the full story here.

The U.N. Never Ceases to Amaze - UN Conference on Arms Trade Treaty Selects Iran as Vice-Chairman.(Fars).The Iranian delegation attending the United Nations Conference on Arms Trade Treaty was elected as the vice-chairman of the meeting being held in New York. The month-long talks were scheduled to kick off July 2 but were delayed until the night of July 3 after a dispute over whether non-members Palestine and The Holy See would be allowed voting rights.
The main goal of the conference is compiling a treaty to legalize the trade of all conventional weapons.
It is expected that the participants discuss the possible challenges facing the conventional weapons' transfer at the international level and compile a treaty to counter the phenomenon.
Calling it a "disgrace" that there is no international agreement regulating global arms sales, the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon yesterday opened a month-long conference that aims to negotiate one to curb black markets and deny weapons to repressive regimes, terrorists and nations at war.
"It is ambitious, but I believe it is achievable," Ban told the delegates in New York representing more than 150 countries. "Our common goal is clear."
Such unregulated weapons kill 1,500 people each day, up to 750,000 a year, according to Amnesty International USA.
The proposed Arms Trade Treaty, in the works for six years, requires 65 nations to ratify it before it is legally binding on those countries.
It would cover all conventional weapons, from small arms to tanks, warships and missile systems. It would require ratifying countries to regulate imports, exports and weapons passing through their territories. Countries would have to publish their sales yearly and register arms brokers, according to the draft treaty.
The treaty asks countries to decide on sales, based on certain criteria. Arms deals contributing to human-rights violations, including terrorism, genocide or other war crimes, should not be authorized.
Other criteria include whether arms would undermine peace or prolong a conflict, be diverted to the black market, hurt the economy of the purchasing nation or if the sale involved corruption.Hmmmm.....No matter what being discussed at the UN you can be sure they'll target Israel....one way or another.Read the full story here.

Does it look like a 'mini sub' in the right hand corner 'decorated' with 'revolutionaries'?

In other Iranian terror news, there are Iranian Missile Sites in Venezuela.Comforting, no?(JawaReport).The Astinave shipping website posts
a photo of Iranian delegates visiting the Guayaquil Shipyard.
Days ago, Mr. General Manager received EP ASTINAVE facilities, 12 industrial
technical delegates from different areas of the Ministry of Defense of the Islamic
Republic of Iran. The meeting was intended to meet the technical capabilities of the
institution and later establish the possible areas of cooperation for further exchange
between the parties on information regarding logistics and technology.Astinave and Iran have a business relationship verified on the company’s website along with this undated
photo of the Iranian delegation visit. The website also contains information that Astinave cooperates with
Israeli Aerospace Industries to improve its surface radar aboard Ecuadorian naval vessels. The unusual
client pairing suggests strategic competition between Israel and Iran in gaining contracts with Ecuador. The
Iranians reportedly obtained exclusive use of the Astinave pier near Santa Cruz de los Taques in 2010 .
Accounts in the Venezuelan media report the Iranian personnel arrived in Santa Cruz in 2010 to sign the
contract with Asdrubal Chavez and have remained there since that time. The agreement falls under the
jurisdiction of Venezuela’s navy and the recent reporting of the contract serves Iran’s message that it can
operate freely in the near region of the United States.
Iranian news articles repeatedly state Iran’s military capabilities and readiness against any foreign threat. It
could be said that the rhetoric is for the benefit of Iran’s population more than Western strategists, but it does
influence international policy toward Iran that has a reputation of operating through proxies and threatening its
regional neighbors. Sanctions against Iran are the result of not only Iran’s message but actions. The reporting
of the Astinave-Iranian agreement for the Santa Cruz port may be timed to demonstrate Iran’s ability to resist
the limitations of sanctions and still carry on with missile bases in Latin America.
Until Iran and Venezuela acquire missile inventory capable of reaching the US from Paraguaná.the
construction of missile sites serves largely as posturing. The ground work and relational ties are sufficient
concern for the US intelligence community, despite the lack of progress on the actual bases. Support from
China or Russia could accelerate the work if either of those countries feels the need to leverage the US,
NATO or the West. Iran and Venezuela are keen to draw surveillance attention toward Venezuela and
maintain a tempo of threatening rhetoric, along with meetings between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo
Chavez in Caracas. By doing so Iran and Venezuela fashion danger into a commodity for trade. An evolving
South America designed to buffet the US reshapes power internationally under this strategy. The Iranians are
eager to do so with missile sites on Paraguaná whether the sites are complete or in progress. At present, the
sites appear to be far from completion.Hmmm....."Yes we Can?"Read the full story here.

Day Three: At the Arms Trade Treaty Conference, the U.S. Speaks.(Heritage).By Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.After the dictatorial circus of the morning, the afternoon session of the ATT
Conference was comparatively calm.
The lowlight was the address by Saudi Arabia, which seemed to be doing its
best to outbid Egypt in the “we support Palestine” sweepstakes. No demand was
too extreme: Palestinian state membership in the U.N., nuclear disarmament, no
parallel meetings at the conference, an attack on Israel for not respecting the
right of Palestinian self-determination in the “Occupied Territories” (someone
needs to tell the Saudis that Hamas, not Israel, controls Gaza), a demand that
the treaty respect the “rights of importing states” (i.e., the rights of
autocracies to buy the guns they want), and the need for states to be able to
import arms for “internal security” (a demand that is wide open to abuse by
authoritarian regimes).
The highlights of the session were, thankfully, more numerous. Spain and New
Zealand made solid statements urging that the ATT apply strictly to genuinely
international arms traffic. Canada’s statement, too, was helpful on what in the
U.S. would be Second Amendment grounds, though regrettably it chose to defend
the legitimacy of hunting and sport shooting in the context only of the treaty’s
preamble, not its scope.
And then there was the U.S. statement, made by Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Thomas Countryman. As in July
2011, the U.S. spoke on behalf of the Permanent Five (P5) Members of the
Security Council. The statement was banal but obviously important.
The U.S. and the rest of the P5 want an ATT that is based fundamentally on
“effective systems [of national control] based on common international
standards,” with authority for approving transfers remaining the right and
responsibility of sovereign nations. The scope of the treaty should be as broad
as possible—so long as it is practical. An Implementation Support Unit in the
U.N. “could” be created to facilitate information exchange, match needs for
foreign aid with those supplying it, and “promote the value” of the ATT.
Finally, the ATT should not enter into force until a reasonable
number—Countryman suggested 65—states had ratified it, and he “expects” this
number to include the main arms trading states.Little if any of this is shocking—most surprising was the U.S. support for
U.N. propaganda, i.e. activities to “promote the value” of the ATT—but a few
points are worth making.
First, Countryman did not mention including small arms, light weapons, or
ammunition in the ATT. Second, he made no reference at all to domestic
constitutional protections or the need for the ATT to respect hunters and sport
shooters and the right of personal self-defense. Finally, he emphasized the need
for the national definition of the goods and services covered by the ATT.The U.S. is kicking the can down the road. But in so doing, it’s moving ever
closer to a treaty that will be bad for U.S. interests and will keep U.S.
diplomats busy fending off more bad ideas for years to come.Read the full story here.

"May the power of the Cloud be with you?" - Power Outages a Sign of Cloud Computing’s Achilles Heel?(Heritage).By David Inserra.Last Friday, storms knocked out power for many in the D.C. metro area.
Disruptions didn’t end there. Amazon Web Services, a cloud service provider,went
down in the storm, taking several major companies’ websites and businesses
offline.Netflix, Instagram, and Pinterest, among others, also lost access to e-mail,
applications, data, and other business services.
While the disruption was brief,
bugs
in the system caused Amazon servers to spread the problem, leading to delays and
disabling of services beyond the affected region.
Cloud computing is the movement of IT capabilities away from individual
computers and servers to centralized providers that manage IT resources for
their users via the Internet. But if the cloud cannot survive a thunderstorm,
can it survive a dedicated cyber or physical attack?
There are good reasons to keep some services off the cloud, but worrying
about disasters is not one of them. The Department of Defense, the National
Security Agency, and other security services would be wise to keep highly
sensitive information on their own servers. Even with the most secure cloud, the
risk of losing even a small amount of information outweighs the benefits.
On the other hand, there
are significant benefits to cloud computing. For most government agencies,
the cloud would likely improve security, and any potential risks could be
managed through proper contracts with the cloud provider.
Another major benefit is increased flexibility. Amazon shifted data and
services to different cloud servers, albeit imperfectly, and restored most
services within a few hours. If a normal server lost power, it would simply turn
off, leaving employees without access to data or applications found on that
server.In the cyber realm, there will always be failures and breaches; even without
cloud computing, the federal government has its share of problems . Ultimately, whether it is on the cloud or on a private server,
strong cybersecurity and a resilient electric grid are needed to keep computers
going.Hmmmm......"May the power of the Cloud be with you?"Read the full story here.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman: 'Friends of Syria' Group ‘Immoral’.(RN).Meetings being organized by the Friends of Syria group are one-sided and
immoral, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich has said.
“Russia, China and a number of other countries which have traditionally
friendly relations with the Syrian Arab Republic and its people have refused to
join those ‘friends’ because we believe that the format that they have chosen is
not only politically wrong, but also immoral,” Lukashevich said.
His remarks followed a conference of the Friends of Syria group held in Paris
on Friday, in which representatives of some 100 countries took part.
Participants in the talks voiced strong criticism of Russia and China for
their reluctance to join Western and Arab governments in calling on Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
In her address to the delegates, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said
Moscow and Beijing “will pay a price” for “holding up progress” on
Syria, urging the participating countries to put pressure on Russia and
China to withdraw their support for Assad.
"I ask you to reach out to Russia and China and to not only urge, but demand
that they get off the sidelines and begin to support the legitimate aspirations
of the Syrian people," Clinton said, adding: “I don't think Russia and China
believe they are paying any price at all, nothing at all, for standing up on
behalf of the Assad regime.”
Lukashevich said in his comments that the U.S. and its allies’ “friendship”
with the Syrian opposition alone could further deepen the bloody 17-month-long
conflict between the Syrian government and those fighting it.
“This would mean only one thing – the continuation of bloodshed and new human
tragedies,” Lukashevich said.

Participants in the Geneva talks, including the five permanent UN Security
Council members - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States – as well
as Turkey, Iraq, Qatar and Kuwait have urged the Syrian government and
opposition groups to immediately end fighting and obey to a peace plan proposed
by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.
They also called for the creation of a transitional government in Syria
involving members of both the current Syrian leadership and opposition
groups.
Instead of pushing the conflicting Syrian sides to work together to achieve
peaceful transition, he said, the Friends of Syria group organize
“politico-propagandist performances in the spirit of party congresses, where the
fate of Syria is being discussed in the absence of its representatives and loud
calls on oppositionists to launch an uncompromising fight to overthrow the
Syrian leadership are being heard.”Those calls are being strengthened by “generous promises of financial and
economic support, as well as behind-the-scenes hints at the possibility of using
a military scenario” in Syria, he added.
Russia and China have twice vetoed United Nations resolutions against Assad,
citing a pro-rebel bias.Both countries have however backed Annan’s
six-point peace plan, which went into force in April, but has failed to stop
the bloodshed.Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, is expected to hold talks with
Syrian opposition groups next week, a diplomatic source said on Friday.Read the full story here.

G.W.Bush "We care because we believe that to whom much is given, much is required,".(CO).George W. Bush opens new health clinic in Zambia.
While former U.S. President George W. Bush faces some often harsh criticism as commander in chief from those who claim he led the nation into unpopular wars and additional criticism from opponents who claim he initiated failed economic policies, he has taken on a new role as an advocate for women's health in Africa. Both he and his wife Laura Bush have recently opened a women's health clinic in Kabwe, Zambia.
President Bush was in Africa to promote cervical cancer detection and treatment programs for Zambian women, many of whom are living with HIV.
"We care because we believe that to whom much is given, much is required," Bush says. "And those of us, who live in America, live in the most blessed nation ever and therefore when we see suffering, we ought to act."
The former president has raised more than $85 million for cervical cancer programs, through his George W. Bush Center and other partner organizations. Bush says his goal is to build upon one of the great bipartisan achievements of his presidency.
In 2003, Bush's AIDS initiative was initially funded $15 billion-worth of anti-retroviral drugs and treatment to extend the lives of millions of Africans with HIV and AIDS.
Zambia currently has the second highest number of cervical cancer cases in the world. Many Zambian women infected with the disease are also living with HIV and have weakened immune systems.
"But the saddest thing of all is to know a lady's life has been saved from AIDS but died from cervical cancer," Bush said. "And so starting in Zambia, the Bush Center, along with our partners, are going to put on a cervical cancer crusade to save lives."
"He's a very nice person," Chanda says, who is the first patient at the clinic. Pronounced cancer-free by the clinicians there, Chanda says that "I thank him and I am wishing you [him] a happy life, a good life."
Bush says he will continue to advocate for global health issues which for him, he says, are a labor of love.Hmmmm......"Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; the LORD delivers him in times of trouble. The LORD will protect him and preserve his life; he will bless him in the land and not surrender him to the desire of his foes. The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed and restore him from the bed of illness."~ Psalm 41:1-3 (NIV).Read the full story here.

Israel’s Emergence As Energy Superpower Making Waves around the world.(CriticalAnalyst).Back to regular
programming. A fascinating and rather optimistic article by Walter
Russel Mead in the American Interest posits that Israel looks likely to
emerge as an energy superpower in the near future, with all the political
ramifications associated with this status.

Israeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir famously lamented that Moses led the children of Israel for
forty years of wandering in the desert until he found the only place in the
Middle East where there wasn’t any oil.But could Moses
have been smarter than believed? Apparently the Canadians and the Russians think
so, as both countries are moving to step up energy relations with a tiny nation
whose total energy reserves some experts now think could
rival or even surpass the fabled oil wealth of Saudi Arabia. [emphases
mine. -Ed].The prospect of
huge oil reserves in Israel comes on top of the recent news about large natural
gas discoveries off the coast that have been increasingly attracting attention
and investor interest. The apparent gas riches have also been attracting
international trouble. Lebanon disputes the undersea boundary with Israel (an
act somewhat complicated by the fact that Lebanon has never actually recognized
Israel’s existence), and overlapping claims from Turkey and Greece themselves
plus both Greek and Turkish authorities on Cyprus further complicate matters.
Yet despite these tensions, following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
surprisingly cordial visit last week, Gazprom and Israel have announced plans to
cooperate on gas extraction.This suggests at
a minimum that Turkish efforts to block gas development in the region will face
opposition from Russia as well as from Israel. Gazprom and other Russian
companies are
also likely to do well in any gas exploration deals developed with the
strongly pro-Moscow (and very cash hungry) Greek Cypriot
government.The stakes are
not small: the offshore Levantine Basin (which Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece,
Cyprus, Israel and even Gaza will all have some claim to) is believed to have120
trillion cubic feet of natural gasand “considerable” oil. Drillers working
in Israeli waters have already identified what look to be 5 billion barrels of
recoverable oil in addition to over a trillion cubic feet of gas. (US firms were
involved in these finds.) Israel’s undersea gas reserves are currently estimated
at about16
trillion cubic feetand new fields continue to be rapidly
found.

The new
Israeli-Russian agreement is part of a
conscious strategy by the Israeli government to use its nascent energy
wealth to improve its embattled political position. With Italy reeling under the
impact of big wrong-way bets on Iran, Rome may also begin to appreciate the
value of good ties with a closer and more dependable neighbor. Another sensible
target for Israeli energy diplomacy would be India: the two countries are
already close in a number of ways, including trade and
military technology, and India is eager to diversify its energy
sources.

Gas is one thing,
but potential for huge shale oil reserves under Israel itself, however, is a new
twist. According to the World Energy Council, a leading global
energy forum with organizations and affiliates in some 93 countries,Israel may
have the third largest shale oil reserves in the world: something like 250
billion barrels. [...] If the estimates of Israeli shale oil are correct,
Israel’s gas and shale reserves put its total energy reserves in the Saudi
class, though Israel’s energy costs more to extract. Many obstacles exist
and in a best case scenario some time must pass before the full consequences of
the world’s new energy geography make themselves felt, but if
production from the new sources in Israel and elsewhere develops, world politics
will change.

[...]

the ability of
the Arab governments to influence political opinion in Europe and the rest of
the world is likely to decline as more oil and gas resources appear — and as
Israel emerges as an important supplier. We could be heading toward a time when
the world just doesn’t care all that much what happens around the Persian Gulf —
as long as nobody gets frisky with the nukes.

Another big loser
could be Turkey.

[...]

But if Israel
really does emerge as a great energy power, and a Russia-Greece-Cyprus-Israel
energy consortium does in fact emerge, Turkey will feel like someone who jilted
a faithful longtime girlfriend the week before she won a huge lottery jackpot.
More, Turkey’s ambitions to play a larger role in the old Ottoman stomping
ground of the eastern Mediterranean basin will have suffered a significant
check.

If the
possibility of huge Israeli energy discoveries really pans out, and if the
technical and resource problems connected with them can actually be solved, the
US-Israeli relationship will also change. Some of this may already be happening.
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s evident lack of worry when it comes to crossing
President Obama may reflect his belief that Israel has some new cards to play.
An energy-rich Israel with a lot of friends and suitors is going to be less
dependent on the US than it has been — and it is also going to be a more
valuable ally.

[..]

An Israel with
vast energy endowments may be less coolly received in certain circles than it is
today.

In the meantime,
we wonder if there was an 11th, hitherto undiscovered commandment on those
tablets at Sinai: Thou shalt drill, baby, thou shalt
drill.

I hope Mead is
not being overly optimistic, and pray that his words go from his keyboard to
G-d’s ears.

Bret
Stephens in the WSJ also quotes Dr. Vinegar and remarks upon the possibility
of the delicious irony of Israel becoming an oil giant.

The
Jerusalem Post reported back in March on how Israel could revolutionise the
global energy market, not only thruogh its oil and shale reserves but through
its technologically creative, ecologically-sound shale extraction
methods.

Israel as an
energy superpower? It’s the epitome of cognitive dissonance. May it come
speedily in our days, Amen.

Hmmmm......The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. For behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it." ~ Jeremiah 30:1-24.

U.S. drought expands, intensifies, what's in store for your future grocery bills?(DroughtMonitor).By
Rick Jordahl.The U.S. Drought Monitor report issued Thursday confirms what most have suspected: the drought, now covering up to half the nation, is expanding and intensifying.
The percent of contiguous U.S. land area experiencing exceptional drought in July reached the highest levels in the history of the U.S. Drought Monitor, said an official at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Nearly 12 percent of the contiguous United States fell into the "exceptional" classification, according to the report. “That level of exceptional drought had never before been seen in the monitor's 12-year history,” said Brian Fuchs, University of Nebraska assistant geoscientist. Eighteen percent of the country is classified as under either extreme or exceptional drought, Fuchs said.
The extreme dry, hot conditions in the nation’s mid-section are driving up corn and soybean prices to record or near-record levels. The July CME soybean contract was trading at record highs hitting $16.28 per bushel Thursday at 2:00 CDT. Corn was at $7.75 per bushel.
Both the number of record highs in the past week, and the areas with record and near-record dryness over the last 1 to 3 months, are numerous. Daily high temperatures averaged above 100 degrees in the central and upper southern Plains, extending eastward into parts of Missouri and Arkansas, and average temperatures for the week were 8 degrees to 15 degrees above normal from the Ohio Valley and upper Southeast westward through most of the High Plains.
The dryness is beginning to take a significant toll on some of the nation’s crops, pastures, and rangelands. In the primary growing states for corn and soybeans (18 each), 22 percent of the crop is in poor or very poor condition, as are 43 percent of the pastures and rangelands and 24 percent of the sorghum crop.
In addition, the area scorched by wildfires expanded significantly. Over 1.9 million acres have been engulfed since the start of the year, and increase of 38 percent in just the past week.Hmmmm..........Anyone has an idea how many products DON'T contain Corn or Corn Syrup?Expect nearly everything to increase big time in Price!Read the full story here.

Is President Obama's Prostate Gland More Important Than Yours?(Forbes).By Paul Hsieh, M.D.When President Obama turned 50 last year, he made an “informed patient request” for a PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) test. This is the blood test routinely used to screen men over 50 for possible prostate cancer. The President received his PSA test. But under ObamaCare, you may not be able to.Now that ObamaCare has been upheld by the Supreme Court, all of its major provisions will be in force, not just the controversial “individual mandate.” This includes government medical practice guidelines that will affect millions of Americans.ObamaCare includes various financial carrots and sticks to pressure doctors into joining large “Accountable Care Organizations” (ACOs). These ACOs will use mandatory electronic medical records to track how closely physicians adhere to government practice guidelines.

Doctors who obey government practice guidelines will be rewarded. Those who order more tests or procedures than the government deems necessary will be penalized.

This year, the USPSTF aroused similar controversy by giving a “D” grade (“not recommended”) to routine PSA prostate cancer screening.
Urologists — who regularly treat patients with prostate cancer — are overwhelmingly opposed to the USPSTF guidelines. Dr. Ian Thompson, a urologist at the University of Texas, notes that the USPSTF guidelines will prevent his patients from making properly informed decisions about their own health. Instead, they amount to a bureaucrat telling patients, “Follow my priorities instead of your own.”Hmmmm.......When Pres. Obama says, "Everyone plays by the same set of rules," it means they conform to his rules.
Read the full story here.

‘No to the Brotherhood’ protest expected in Egypt’s Tahrir Square.(AA).Egyptian activists are planning to take to Cairo’s central Tahrir Square on Friday to protest against the Muslim Brotherhood, in a planned million-man demonstration titled “No to the Brotherhood.”
The protests have been reportedly planned by the Maspero Youth Union, a revolutionary Coptic group, and a number of military supporters.
The armed forces, which had transitionally ruled the country since Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown last year, handed over power to President Mohammed Mursi, who came from the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood last week.
The groups taking part in Friday’s protest are asking for Mursi to leave power, according to reports from Al Arabiya TV.
Last Friday, Mursi joined tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square on Friday to celebrate his victory and keep pressure on the nation’s ruling generals to restore the parliament and hand power over to a civilian government.
“There is no power above people power,” Mursi declared to wild cheers from the crowd.
Mursi, who won a run-off election earlier this month against Mubarak’s last premier, was received with applause by the tens of thousands of people gathered in the square.
He paid tribute to “the square of the revolution, the square of freedom,” addressing “the free world, Arabs, Muslims... the people of Egypt, brothers and sisters... Muslims of Egypt, Christians of Egypt.”This Friday, Tahrir will also be accommodating the protests of another group: Egyptian women protesting against the rising sexual violence in the country.
A page on Facebook, titled “Safe Tahrir for Women,” has called on both men and women to join forces to demonstrate against violence directed toward women in the iconic square under the theme.
“We want strong people to act as guards to protect women from thugs who have been abusing them in the square. We want to catch these criminals who are destroying the reputation of the revolution, expose and shame them, and bring them to justice,” the statement on the Facebook page read.
The campaign has been launched after dozens of violent attacks against women in Tahrir last month.
Female protesters and journalists say the assaults are becoming commonplace in the Square, with groups of men attacking a women’s march against sexual harassment in an incident in June.
“We want to say, ‘Enough, No!’ to the terrible assaults against women which have been happening in Tahrir. We believe them to have been carried out by state-sponsored paid thugs: let’s catch them, and prove that the people of Tahrir are amongst the noblest in the world,” their statement added.
Hmmmm.....can't wait to hear the Obama admin condemn the protests.Read the full story here.

Video: Muslim U.S. Congressman wants American schools Modeled after Madrassas.(Shoebat).Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) is perhaps the most well known Muslim in the U.S. Congress but he’s not the only one. The other is Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN). While speaking at the ICNA-MAS convention, Carson told those in attendance that America’s schools should be ‘modeled’ after ‘madrassas’ (Islamic schools).
Incidentally, the ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America) was identified in a 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document as one of 29 ‘like minded’ organizations. The goal of these organizations? According to the document itself:

“…their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands … so that … God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.”

MAS (Muslim American Society) was formed in 1992, one year after the date of the document, which might explain why they weren’t one of the 29. Bolstering that case further is the fact that MAS has identified two groups who are on the list of the notorious 29 – Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and Muslim Students Association (MSA) as being like-minded.So, as DHS is more concerned with ‘rightwing extremism’ than it is with Jihad, a sitting U.S. Congressman is a featured speaker at a convention filled with those who want to destroy Western civilization (America) from within.”Four things Ellison and Carson share in common: Both are Muslim, both are Democrats, both are members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and both are confirmed socialists.Read the full story here.

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